please add Gamescope (steam) to the software manager repository [SOLVED]

[Grahm850]

Gamescope is steam support software that allows the user to run any app under fsr.

currently the 2 existing installation methods are daunting: either compile the app from source or reinstall steam and gamescope with flatpak and reinstall your steam library,

I feel this would be a worthwhile because It gives a lot mint users access to hardware they have, not til now, been able to access. It would also make linux mint more popular with windows gamers. A key source of new linux users

[rcalixte]

I don't believe any action is needed from Mint for gamescope. It has been packaged in Debian's repositories since Debian 12 (which was the basis for LMDE 6) and it will finally be included in Ubuntu's repositories after 25.04. Therefore, unless gamescope is removed from either repository, it will be in Ubuntu's 26.04 LTS release which will probably be the basis for next year's Linux Mint 23.0.

While this leaves Linux Mint 22.x users without easy access and the inconvenience is understandable, the trade-off of the additional packaging work (it wouldn't just be gamescope that would need to be packaged but also any dependencies that are either unavailable or out of date) probably outweighs the benefits.

ref: Repology - gamescope package versions

[Grahm850]

OK, thanks for the explanation. I'll just have to learn to be patient.

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